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  • Upstream they found deposits of copper ore, sand, clay, and building-stone.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Upstream they found deposits of copper ore, sand, clay, and building-stone.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The third building-stone is a certain interpretation of a statement in Apostle Paul ` s Areopagus speech that God has "determined the boundaries of the habitations of men" (Acts 12: 26).

    THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF APARTHEID(1) 1971

  • This in turn led to his demonstration that histidine, a building-stone of proteins, is an imidazole alanine, and to his discovery of histamine

    Adolf Windaus - Biography 1966

  • Physics is awarded as a reward for a discovery, confirmed in an experimental way, of a new fundamental building-stone of atoms and molecules, viz. the discovery of the so-called neutron.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • We congratulate you to this most important result by which has been revealed a new building-stone of matter playing the same fundamental part as the proton and the electron.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • He had been given one of the lanterns with which to light a passage across the heaps of broken stones, earth, and rubbish, cast there at the time in the remote past when the quarry was in full blast, with workmen delving into the hillside, blasting away sections through the use of dynamite or powder, and sending out many wagon-loads of building-stone each of the six working days of the week.

    The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path Donald Ferguson

  • The value of brick and other products made from clay has doubled in the same period and is now $160,000,000, while the value of building-stone quarries is three times as great as it was ten years ago.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • The stratification can rarely be studied on the surface only: superficial indications of this are obscured by the plough, weather, vegetation, and the activities of modern natives who grub for building-stone and for the chance of buried treasure.

    How to Observe in Archaeology Various

  • Turnpikes, controlled by corporations, were the principal avenues over which country produce, lumber, firewood, and building-stone found their way to the little metropolis.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 Various

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